In Ottawa, nobody’s ready for Trump

Ottawa reacted with shock Tuesday night as Donald Trump won the White House.

Politicians held their fire, but in the bars downtown where people gathered to watch the news, expecting a Hillary Clinton victory, the mood quickly turned anxious and then grim as cable news panels shifted from calm to disbelief to tentative acceptance.

At Real Sports, a modern sports bar in the Byward Market where patrons normally gather to watch hockey games on giant screens, politicos and lobbyists rubbed shoulders, drinking beers and greeting old friends as at many parties past.

The crowd erupted into cheers each time CNN declared that Clinton won a state — Virginia, California, Hawaii.